Svend White

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Svend White is an Information Technology consultant currently based in Oklahoma. He was raised as a Muslim in Boston, thanks to his parents’—a Dane and a Bostonian—conversion to Islam before his birth in the early 1970s. A life-long and proudly-unreconstructed liberal, he has been involved in various interfaith dialogue, Middle East democracy-promotion and reform initiatives, including the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy in Washington, DC (which he helped to found). He has an M.A. in Religion from the University of Georgia. He has authored a number of scholarly articles on Islam, Muslims, and the Middle East and his commentaries have been published in print magazines such as Islamica Magazine and Q-News and in a variety of online publications, including altmuslim.com, MuslimWakeUp, Religion Dispatches, and openDemocracy. He is married to Shabana Mir, with whom he shares a beautiful daughter by the name of Raihana. From time to time, he also writes on his personal blog, Akram’s Razor.